David Rockefeller Quotes
Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
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I'd argue that the term 'superhero' is much too broadly used.
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You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.
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I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
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Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.
